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dinkey

or »å¾±²Ô°ì·²â

[ ding-kee ]

noun

plural dinkeys.
  1. a small locomotive, especially with a switch engine.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dinkey1

1840–50; noun use of dinky; -ey 2
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A small train called a dinkey carried the clay to a chamber, where it was pulverized.

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Anyone who wanted that dinkey pewter mug could have it, as far as he cared.

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Reed lifted the silent, wondering, big-eyed girl from the dinkey train which pulled into Cartagena from Calamar ten days later, and took her to the Hotel Mariana, where his anxious, fretting wife awaited.

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Esther, may I have a packet of seeds? and one of those dear dinkey little watering-cans?

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But at Quebec, the best—and I had the best—were beefy members of their dinkey colonial Government or fussy, timid barristers I had to carry on me mouth.

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